{"title":"Eccrine Hydration","authors":"Gareth Morgan","doi":"10.24908/iee.2023.16.2.n","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A series of immersion experiments has indicated that humans are able to absorb sufficient fresh water from sea water by reverse osmosis through their eccrine sweat glands to remain fully hydrated without drinking anything at all. This unique facility would have enabled our ancestors to survive periods of severe drought.","PeriodicalId":42755,"journal":{"name":"Ideas in Ecology and Evolution","volume":"24 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Ideas in Ecology and Evolution","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.24908/iee.2023.16.2.n","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A series of immersion experiments has indicated that humans are able to absorb sufficient fresh water from sea water by reverse osmosis through their eccrine sweat glands to remain fully hydrated without drinking anything at all. This unique facility would have enabled our ancestors to survive periods of severe drought.